google--

why does the blogger bar say "next blog>>" when clearly they mean "random blog"?

and why is it so damn hard to put a google map into a blogger post? google owns both, so one would think it'd be in their best interest to make it dead easy. the maps api is a bit of a mess, with it using lat/long values in reverse order (long/lat) from what the google front end returns. useful marker locations are even harder to dig out of the page source.

is it too much to ask for some conditional tags from blogger? if there's fewer than two comments, wrapping the show/hide or (s) would neaten things up. aren't computers supposed to do that sort of mindless accounting crap for us?